re: #347 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Parts of it are, especially the Medina “Revelations” (my use of quotes is meant to imply a level of sarc.)

I’m absolutely no scholar, but I have a hunch that something changed (inside Mohammed) after his first wife died, about the time he left Mecca.

Probably not a good idea to get into this here, but what changed was that he started winning … and began to attract a larger, more vocal and apparently more bloodthirsty following.